Samir Ousman al-Sheikh, part of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, was in charge of Adra prison where prisoners were tortured This article contains descriptions of torture. A US federal court in Los Angeles sentenced a former Syrian government official who ran one of the country’s most infamous prisons to 60 years in ...
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YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donationYouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation
Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation YouTube star Ms Rachel has said she is matching rapper Macklemore’s $1m donation to organizations supporting Palestinians, calling on other public figures to follow suit. Macklemore, who was fired as the opening act on Ed ...
Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with … more mosquitoesScientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with … more mosquitoes
Nearly half a million more of the insects are being released in California – they’re all male and carry a bacterium The box arrived in the San Gabriel Valley, just east of Los Angeles, filled with more than two dozen paper tubes about the size of toilet paper rolls. “All ...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” ...
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock created a fake police department called “Flock City PD” that it used to search a series of live automated license plate readers in several U.S. cities during demonstrations of its surveillance system’s capabilities, public records show. The records show that Flock City PD searched real cameras for people holding ...
Video AI company Pika offers new tool to speed up AI video creationVideo AI company Pika offers new tool to speed up AI video creation
The News Video AI company Pika launched a program to help AI creators make videos faster by using fewer prompts. The product automates which AI model is used to create a given element in the video and speeds up the prompting process. Instead of crafting paragraph descriptions from scratch as ...
Senate Republicans weigh whether to keep investing in North Carolina and Georgia racesSenate Republicans weigh whether to keep investing in North Carolina and Georgia races
The News Republicans may have to make hard choices this fall as they shape their strategy for keeping the Senate — and some think it might not include North Carolina or Georgia. Just 10 years ago, those two southern states formed the bedrock of Republicans’ Senate majorities. But as President ...
UAE’s super stallions will compete in Japan’s Asian GamesUAE’s super stallions will compete in Japan’s Asian Games
I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name, but it wasn’t one of the UAE’s super stallions going to the Asian Games. Zen Liquidity and stablemate Tesla DXB will carry the UAE’s colors in Japan, alongside Lotus-S and Le Grand Ayden HB. The UAE fielded its first-ever ...
Saudi Arabia’s well-timed uranium find near MedinaSaudi Arabia’s well-timed uranium find near Medina
On July 22, the US and Saudi Arabia finalized a nuclear deal that gave the kingdom a pathway to enrich uranium. Fifty-four days later, Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced an estimated 110 million tonnes of ore with “promising concentrations of uranium” were discovered near Medina. He didn’t say ...
A Norman Conquest retelling “steeped in Viking lore and gore”A Norman Conquest retelling “steeped in Viking lore and gore”
by Erin Goeres. With the UK in the throes of “Bayeux fever” — the 200-foot tapestry depicting the buildup to the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and the Battle of Hastings, now on display in Britain — a scholar of Scandinavian studies “exposes the slyly partisan narrative of the Bayeux ...